As Brandon Johnson hauled within the tip-drill Hail Mary move from Russell Wilson, all of the District of Columbia and surrounding spaces let loose a number of expletives, I’m positive.
“The Commanders are truly going to Commie this up, aren’t they,” some inebriated particular person in Adams Morgan stated. After a comeback that confirmed power on each side of the ball with Sam Howell correctly working the offense, Brian Robinson Jr. taking a look like some of the most-improved working backs in soccer, a defensive entrance that may disrupt a well-oiled offensive line, and not one of the bone-headed errors that experience outlined Washington’s on-field NFL purgatory of this millennium, all of it just about went away as no Commanders’ defensive again controlled to knock the ball to the turf and finish the sport.
In some way, Washington didn’t additional screw up its season from there and gained the sport. And the Commanders are 2-0 for the primary time since two names in the past, and extra particularly, 2011. That yr, Washington went to 3-1, had a Week 5 bye, then gained two video games the remainder of the season to complete 5-11. Then they traded as much as the second one total pick out of the following yr’s draft and decided on Robert Griffin III.
Welcome to the Commanders, Drake Maye!
Kidding.
History (confidently) gained’t repeat itself as Washington already has a North Carolina quarterback main it. The outlook for this season is higher than most effective 5 wins for the Commanders, even in the most productive department in soccer.
The Commanders wanted a fourth-quarter comeback at house to defeat some of the worst groups within the league by way of 4 in Week 1. They usually have been dismantled by way of the first-half Broncos. The second one-half Broncos are trash and Washington picked them aside. Now with the Expenses coming to the city in Week 3, do we in the end see the “actual” Washington? I’m now not so positive. If the Commanders get blown out, everybody will say it’s extra of the similar crap within the country’s capital. If Washington wins, everybody will suppose it’s a fluke until it’s an intensive demolishment. So the Commies truly don’t have anything to lose in opposition to a group regarded as some of the favorites to achieve the Tremendous Bowl.
Smartly, with the exception of for one sport.
Regardless of two wins, the outlook for the Commanders within the NFC East is 3rd, at highest, which is okay. Philadelphia is in reality one in every of two groups excellent sufficient to play within the Tremendous Bowl from the NFC this season, and Dallas’ protection is likely one of the highest within the league and would sign up for the 49ers and Eagles as conceivable Tremendous Bowl contenders if it didn’t have an enormous contemporary historical past of choking within the playoffs.
The Giants comeback win over Arizona doesn’t turn out anything else about their skill, as taking up a sport in opposition to some of the worst groups in soccer isn’t spectacular. Lots of the remainder of the NFC is unproven too. The Lions and whoever comes out of the NFC South may also make the playoffs, which means there’s various wiggle room for the Commanders to head 9-8, or in all probability 10-7 and nonetheless make the postseason.
Will this Washington group set the arena on hearth?
Nope, now not even shut.
Is that this a Washington group on the upward thrust?
Sure, which is a bracing-for-impact-style resolution.
There’s been various instances the franchise has “grew to become a nook” most effective to have fallen again into purgatory, particularly with Griffin because the group’s long term greater than a decade in the past. And with out Dan Snyder concerned within the group, perhaps this euphoria isn’t unwarranted.
And that’s the loopy phase.
We’ve observed 8 quarters and two wins from the Commanders. We’re now not as regards to working out what the group is in a position to.
